Life is a soul-searching journey for me, everyday I learn something new about myself. I am completely unpredictable girl. I can easily come across as a paradox as I am more of an intuitive person rather than being extremely rational.

Open communication and freedom of expression is very important to me. I love to talk about anything and everything—love, space, stars, flowers, finance, sex, drama. You name it, and I can get you involved in a heated discussion over it.

Through this blog, I discovered the activist in me. This blog is also a feeble attempt to pen few of the thousand thoughts that come to my mind everyday.

I did not include my education and work deliberately…thought writing candidly without the baggage of my qualifications…somehow liked the idea of making my identity only out of my views, my words…so did not deliberately put up any picture, just an eye..eye of a strong lady…That’s Modesty (Blase), pun was completely unintended :P

Hi Poonam. Came here from the comment you left on my blog. Hullo to you. :)
When you said:
//Despite my love for communication, I am an immensely private person. //
I understood instantly. I am the same. I love people but there are things which I can share only with a few people who are very close to me.
btw, I am a movie buff too. :)
You have a nice blog going…keep writing!!

Poonam: Hey Nita.. I figured from your movie posts that you are a movie buff as well. Glad that you liked my blog..but yet it is not in same league as your in terms on number of subjects handled and readership. I have to yet to get there. :)

When you said:
//Despite my love for communication, I am an immensely private person. //
I understood instantly.
And if we are the same, we should catch up sometime. What do ya say? :)

– anything related to art or creativity interests me….
– I love to be surrounded by friends but remain a loner at heart…
– This blog is also an attempt to pen few of the thousand thoughts that come to my mind everyday…

There are similarities, really. Only time impeded me to follow your blog closer. I will, in the future. You are now on my favourite-blogs list now.

By the way, thank you for that beautiful comment on that guy who burned himself. The picture was horrible and so sad. Your message instead beautiful.

Poonam: Manofroma, Thanks for telling we have similarities :) but you certainly flatter me when you praise so much about my comment in your blog. :) It was your impassioned writing that compelled me to comment and write about that unfortunate guy called Rajeev Goswami.

Me too have not been able to follow your blog meticulously because of time constraint (how I hate this phrase), but when I see your comments in my friend’s blog, I visit your blog. :)

Just a small correction, Ma’am, about my LEAD INDIA profile you mention in your blog : I am not ex- army; just a late entrant into the part time Territorial Army! Today when I return home wearing the army uniform, I am greeted by one of the finest salutes that I could have hoped for. My son stands proudly at the door and salutes me while saying “Jai Hind”. I return the salute feeling extremely fulfilled and peaceful. Jai Hind.

Earlier I was a MNC CEO overseas and returned to India in 1998. Discovered India on a bicylce by cycling from Kalka to Kanyakumari, styaing in villages. Also had the privilege to lead a nationwide grassroots movement on education (NAFRE) across 26,5000 villages in India.

Regards, Sanjiv
Poonam: Hi Sanjiv, Thanks for dropping by and pointing out the corrections. I have made the corrections. Thank you for providing more info about yourself. :) (About the info gap, blame TOI coverage of finalists. I was actually unsure about the army thing, but TOI did mention that episode of your friends filling the form.)

And yes that salute from your son is perhaps the best salute you could get. I have voted for you when there were 3 finalists from Delhi. Keep the good work going, wish you luck for your win! :)

Hey, would you like to share a word about your dream project? All I know it is about education. But have no clear cut idea.

Hey poonam,
learnt about your blog through nova.
Interesting to say the least. But as dinsan said in the first comment it would be nice if we could get a pic of you or at least know something abt where on earth you manage to work with these many paradoxes fitted in yourself.
Anyways nice introduction. Guess i’ll have to work on mine :P

Poonam: Hi, Minal..welcome to Visceral Observations! :) Gald you found the blog interesting. The reason why there is no picture of mine or any personal details in the about me section is because I wanted only my writing and my thoughts to be my identity on Web. If you guys are left wanting for more, there is some gap. And I need to fix it. :P

I saw your blog, it is self-hosted. The template looks nice. You must have a good knowledge of back-end stuff to dare to self-host. I want to but I am not confident if a novice like me can pull it off.

Well, though I think you Indians have an easier task trying to understand Romans because of the special connection to the West you have thru Victorians. This connection I do not think works two-ways, being India much beyond Victorians being way more ancient

PS
Pls excuse me and pls be my ambassador with all sweet Indians:
my recent comments to their blog (Ish, you, Nova etc. ) were crazy and maybe abusing. Hard moment. Ghosts of mind are about to attack.

May I propose either to delete ALL ManofRoma comments for the next 30 days, or to just *cut* them mercilessly?

Me of course preferring the second option lol
I salute you
and all India with you
ManofRoma
Poonam: Manofroma, relax! I did not find any of your comment abusive or crazy. Take care, keep well!

And congratulations to your blog – it is just wonderful, hats off!
Poonam: Hey, I am glad you did not complain about my comment. And thank you for your appreciation for my blog. I am glad, keep coming. :)

Hey, nice blog… And that thing u’ve written about urself … love to have a conversation on any topic … interests me. I’d love to have a conversation similar to the one Julie Delphy and Ethan Hawke have in the movies Before Sunrise/Sunset.
And keep writing… ;)

Poonam: If you liked it, then visit it more often! :)
As for this movie, I have not watched it. If you recommend, can watch it sometime. I am movie buff, remember. But I can surely talk about Ethan Hawke :P

hey,
thts a very nice intro:)
i tried watching foreign movies….. long time back, but gave up….its now its mostly bollywood masala for me…. and yes, theatre is something that interests me as well…

see ya:)

Poonam: Hey, thanks but your intro in alphabets is also unique and interesting. I saw it long time back and yet remember it. :)

Why gave up watching foreign movies. I have not given up, but difficult to get foreign movies these days and less of time to visit film festivals. But yes do try to make it to theatre. Which city are you in? Delhi has a pretty decent theater scene. What about your city?

thank u:)
i live in Bangalore…. iv never really tried getting foreign movies. most of wt iv seen was during college…. though i know there r few film festivals… will make it a point to visit next time:)
and in theatre….. we have pretty good plays put up by good groups…. its probably a better way to relax on weekends:)

Hey I really enjoy your site… I love books and try to read a lot of them… I am afraid that I am a “Movie alcoholic” so I try to balance the two… to me a book is way more intriguing then a movie any-day (given on what book it is tho’) Well Poonman you have a extra wonderful spring day and I look forward to more of your writings :):) And I am sure that if you are this interesting I will for sure watch a movie that you have directed when you get to that point in your life. anything is for sure possible! ~Me

It was a nice experience to go through the page “about me”. If you take time to visit my site(this one is purely engaged in helping the needy, including students. Out of my own experience in the field of education through one-to-one counselling, in both, educational as well as career, I found that it is very much required to serve the people)I hope that if I publish some of your writings in my site, with your permission in the interest of service, my visitors also get benefitted. Anyway, let me know response in this regard.
Keep it up! Good luck..
regards,
cs

Poonam: Chandrashekhar, thanks for dropping by. I visited your Web site, it deals with various topics. You seem to have quite a repository there. I have hardly written any articles on education, though I plan to in future. Thank you for your interest. :) Keep dropping by!

Why addressed Poonam is i got to read about you and your comments and the blogs by visiting “Jai Hind” and in to Poonam’s blog. Believe me i was just trying to read the “real stuff” in the blogs and was not able to lay my hand on one. This is really good one. Thank you Poonam and all others. Hope to see more and more of meaningful things being talked and may be the desired change could be seen one day. Lets hope for the best.

Jai Hind.

Poonam: Jay, glad to hear your compliments. The Jai Hind blog is not solely written by me but some more great guys who write more regularly than me. :) I hope I am able to make more meaningful posts in future.

Poonam, I was researching on disabled people in India and remembered you had written a post on it. I came here but realised you didn’t have a search function installed and thus couldn’t find it. Can you provide the link please?
Sure, emailed you! :) I have added search too. It got lost while changing theme. It seems.

p.s. I was reading my earlier comment on the blog…a year has passed (almost) but looks like we haven’t met! :) A few weeks ago I had suggested to a few people in our blogging community that we arrange some sort of meet. It was priyank who suggested it actually. do you come to mumbai Poonam? If you do, lets organize a blogging meet.

I would love to meet you, Nita. I do visit Mumbai annually to visit my relatives. Perhaps this time year end. I will surely write to you then.

Nice Blog,
Why dont you write a Blog Post about Few Good Foriegn Movies.
SO that few more people could enjoy watching their TV Screens and Reading Subtitles at the Same time :)
I do plan to do that sometime, only I lose focus and am lazy to write about. Thanks for reminding me though!

i really liked the theme, a place where one has to express what he really feels……i m not a blog buff, but now i think soon i m gonna be……not very used to all this, so needs time to know how to put my views n feelings here, i hope it wont take long.

LOVED UR BLOG POONAM..u inspire me..to keep on writing!!..added you to my blogroll…as i want to keep cmin back!
Hey Manushi, its great to know that I could inspire someone to blog. I visited your blog, and the best thing I can tell you to write a greta blog is to keep on blogging, something even I fail to keep up sometimes. But blog with heart, as most as you can. :)

Yes! ‘Fingerprints’ is absolutely incongruous here! I am surprised why it did not occur to me! I am correcting it on my blog too. Thanks for reminding. Feel free to remind me in future too because I love the English language.

You seem to be headlong into the ocean of blogging, which is good. I too do a little; have just started, but only for a new way of satiating my writing desire. Did not know there are award competitions and all that.

good wishes,
Vaibhav

Welcome , Vaibhav! You just have to keep writing in your blog, rest will follow itself. :) I will go and see your post now. Keep on blogging!

Hi Poonam,
ReaD UR BLOG after a gap. There is always something interesting here. It was nice knowing 7 things i need not know about you.
Hvnt been in touch with you lately. I am likely to move away from Meerut soon. Dunno the next destination yet.

Hi Poonam,
I was looking for the text of the Poem “I, Draupadi” by Kartikeya Sarabhai and stumbled upon ur blog. Loved it.
I need a favour. Do u have the full text of the poem? I f yes, can u please send that to me?
Regards.
Arvind